MAPUTO, Nov. 30 -- A Brazil-made brand-new Mozambique Airlines passenger aircraft crashed into remote lush forests in northern Namibia, killing 27 passengers and 6 crew on board, authorities of the both countries confirmed Saturday.

The toll is slightly different from the information given by Namibian investigators, who said there were 34 people on board the plane when it crashed on Friday afternoon and that there was no sign of survivors.

In a bulletin, state-owned Mozambique Airlines (LAM) said it confirmed the "tragic loss" of flight TM470 with "great sadness and regret". But it did not have any information on the circumstances how the Embraer-190 jet en route to Luanda crashed. It left Maputo at 0926 GMT and was scheduled to arrive at the Angolan capital at 1310 GMT.

According to LAM, the aircraft, designed to carry maximum 93 people, was manufactured in 2012 and went into service only on Nov. 17, 2012. A team from the manufacture Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. will assist in determine the cause of the crash.

Mozambique's Minister of Transportation and Communications Gabriel Muthisse told a Saturday press conference in Maputo that sources from the Botswana side heard the explosion and saw thick smoke rising from a national park in Namibia's Zambezi region at about 3 p.m. local time Friday. Namibian Air Forces immediately dispatched a search team into the remote jungle battling heavy rain and only managed to find the wreckage Saturday.